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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (May 1, 1886)
THE WEST SHORE. 149 and qunrtas ledges which have no existeuoe. This is the storehouse from which through a long cycle of yours nature has been drawing her supplies and storing them np along the tortuous windings of the river, for the use of willing hands and active brains in our own day aud generation. THE LATEST WHIM. " The very latest idea nlxut fitting up a room," said a fashionable lady, " is to hang the walls with cloth, and cover the floor witlj other material than carpet aud mat ting. You may not boliove it, but the prettiest kind of a room can be fixed up by simply using blue jeans, the cheap cotton cloth, you know, froiu which overalls are made, costing from fifteen to twenty cunts a yard. It makes a splendid carpet Come with mo and I will show you the one I have just put down in our ' blue ' room." The writer was led into a veritable blue room. The floor was carpeted with jeans of a dark blue color, a shade very pleasing to tlio eye. Several handsome rugs of different shapes and sixes relieved the monotony in color which would otherwise have oxistod. Tim dado on the walls was also of tho same material, viz.: jeans. It was tacked on in broad pleats iu such a manner that the seams did not show, and was raised from tho walls alout half an inch by tho use of narrow strips of wood underneath. A delicate shade of bluo paper covered the wall alxvo the dado. The writer was to'd that in some cases the entire wall was hung with the sumo gixxls, and made vory attractive by using different shades for the lody mid the dado. In another residence was seen a room furnished in the Japaneso stylo. The entire wall was hung with much more expensive goods, containing a large per cent of gilt thread. Tho froizo at the top was Bbout eighteen inches deep, projecting three inches from the wall, and trimmed at the bottom with a heavy friniro. The effect was that of a short lambrequin all around the room. The curtains were of the same ma terial, and draiKd in the usuid manner. A pagoda-liko canopy that ovorhung the Ixxl was made of Japanese cloth of contrasting color. A stained-glass Japanese lantern surrounded the gas jets in the center of tho room. The cabinet alxive the fire-place was filled with oild Oriental curios. A NKW music hall has solved the tall hat at the omr problem. The balconies Bre raised at such a steep pitch that the foot of the listener come on a level with the shoulders of the person sitting in front of him. When a woman with a hat like a drop curtain come in and site down Ixifore a fellow, the fellow does not care a conti nental for the hat In fact " rather like it He lay his programme, handkerchief aud opera glaxsoe upon it This please the audience and it smile. Tho woman does not know what tho racket is and thinks she is at tracting attention, so she mile. Thiw everylxxly is pleased, and the little woman with steeple crown lint is no more of a nuisance than the fellow who scramble out over your kneo to go after some clove. NEW 8AOOHARINB SUBSTANCE A new swootening agent has been produced from coal tar. It is known to chemists as " Ironmoyl sulphuric int. ide," but it is promised to name it " saccharine." The discoverer is Dr. FahlWg, and its preparation and pro perties were recently described by Mr. Ivan Levinstein at a mooting of the Manchester section of the Society of Chemical Industry. Saccharine presents the apMmranoc of a white jxiwdor, and crystalline from its aqueous to lution iu thick, short prisms, which are with dillloulty soluble in cold water, but more easily in warm. Alcohol, ether, glucose, glycol, eta; are gixxl solvent of sacchar ine. It molts at two hundred degrees C, witli partial decomposition. Its taste in diluted solutions is intense ly sweet; so much so, that one part will give a very sweet taste te ton thousand parts of water. Saccharine forms suite, all of which xssoss a xwcrful saccharine taste. It is endowed with inixlerately strong antiseptic prop erties, and is not dooompsod in tho human system, but eliminated from tho Ixxly without undergoing any change. It is ntxmt two hundred and thirty time sweeter than the host oane or lxot-nxt sugar. The use of Bacchariuo will therefore w not merely a probable sulwti tute for sugar, but it may even lie applied to medical pur poses where sugar is not xtrmissahlo One part of sac charine added to one thousand parts of glucose form a mixturo quite as sweet as ordinary cane sugar. Tho pres ent price is fifty shillings jxir xmml, but although very high, this is not prohibitory, as Its wooteuing (tower I so great; but it is very probable the cost of its manufac ture will wxin Imi very considerably reduced. The Hnu its' Uuurtluin says: "This lisw oouixiund will Ixi of great interest to brewer, for not only is it perfectly wholesome, but it possesses, ill addition to its intensely Rwoot taste, decided antiseptic proxrtie, aud therefore may be usefully and advantageously added to Wr." WHITE RIVER FALLS. Among the most beautiful, but not well known, falls, so numerous along the mountain breams of Oregon, are those of White river, in Wasoo county. This stream finds iU fountain head in numnrou crooks fed by the snow of Mount Hood, down whoso mmthnrn slope they , flow. The largest of these are Summit aud Ilouldor creeks, which combine with Clear crock to form White river. Other imxirtent tributaries are Kadgor ami Tygh crooks, Ixith' heading along tho base of tho groat snow peak. Tho water of these strnam is as clear as crystal, and when they leap over the brink of the double fulls, as shown in the engraving ou page one hundred ami sixty-ix, they piosont a picture which calls for the ad miration of everyouo who behold it Hoones like thi aro only xsiblo in the mountains, whore clear water and massive rocks combine to produce most Wutiful effects. l'UKss tho finger against tho upper lip, close to the nostrils, to prevent snuoxo.